Two Kolbars from the cities of Divandarreh and Baneh, were injured by border forces along the Baneh border.
According to Kolbarnews, on Sunday, August 18, 2024, border forces opened fire on a group of Kolbars in the Sartazen border area of Baneh, severely injuring two of them.
The identities of the injured have been confirmed as 38-year-old Hamid Ahmadi from Divandarreh and approximately 50-year-old Mahmoud (last name unknown) from Baneh.
The report states that both Kolbars were directly targeted with pellet guns by the border forces, resulting in injuries to their heads and eyes.
According to statistics recorded by Kolbarnews, in the first six months of 2024, a total of 270 Kolbars in the border areas and inter-road routes of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah provinces were killed or injured due to factors such as direct shooting by the regime’s military forces, avalanches and frostbite, stepping on mines, falling from mountains and heights, and other incidents.
Out of this number, a total of 34 Kolbars (13%) were killed and 236 Kolbars (87%) were injured.
Of the 270 Kolbars who were killed or injured in the first six months of 2024, a total of 222 cases (82%) were due to direct shooting or beatings by the regime’s military forces.
Additionally, of the 270 Kolbars who were killed or injured in the first six months of 2024 in the Kurdish border region, 20 of them were children under the age of 18.
Comparing the statistics of the first six months of 2024 with the same period in 2023, we have witnessed a 218% increase in the killing and injuring of Kolbarn in the Kurdish border region.
